I don’t know what you mean by “condescension is de facto allowed”; besides which, this is not about what is allowed, but about what is right by the standards that LessWrong is based on.
I am not concerned to “differentiate ourselves”, but to say what I see in SneerClub. This is not a shit-flinging contest, however much you try to make it be one. What is your purpose with this post? “Let’s you and him fight”?
Pretty sure diagrams and stories and analogies are allowed here. (And condescension is de facto allowed, even by accident, when talking about seemingly-basic mental operations.
Out of ways to differentiate ourselves from SneerClub, something tells me “compare outgroup to chimpanzees” is… not the best.
But “hokey” analogies? No.
I don’t know what you mean by “condescension is de facto allowed”; besides which, this is not about what is allowed, but about what is right by the standards that LessWrong is based on.
I am not concerned to “differentiate ourselves”, but to say what I see in SneerClub. This is not a shit-flinging contest, however much you try to make it be one. What is your purpose with this post? “Let’s you and him fight”?